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WHICH ASSEMBLED IN THE CITY OV WASHINGTON 



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2? The Convention of the National Republican Young Men of the United States 
^ assembled, pursuant to notice, at the City Hall, in the city of Washington, at 
9 o'clock, on Monday, May 7, 1832. The meeting being called to order, on mo- 
tion of N. Sargent, Esq., of Pennsylvania, Zaccheus Collins Lee, Esq. 
was appointed President, pro tern, and James Barkour, Jr. of Virginia, Se- 
■cretary. 

On motion of Mr. Piatt, of Ohio, the following resolutions were adopted: 
Resolved,, That a committee, to consist of one from each delegation, to 
be selected by such delegation, be appointed; whose duty it shall be, to examine 
the credentials of the members of this Convention, and report thereon. 

Resolved, Tiiat a committee, to consist of four, be appointed by the Chair, 
who shall confer with the Committee of Arrangements of the District, on the 
practicability of procuring a more commodious place of sitting for the Conven- 
tion. 

On motion of Mr. Gamage, of New York, it was 
Resolved^ That it is proper and becoming to invoke Divine assistance in all im- 
portant undertakings; and, therefore, that the reverend Clergy of this city be in- 
vited to attend this Convention, and commence the meeting each day with prayer. 

The Convention then adjourned until 5 o'clock, when they again met, for the 
-purpose of examining certificates, and making other preliminary arrangements. 

On motion, it was 

Resolved, That the officers of this Convention consist of a President, four Vice 
Presidents, and two Secretaries; and that a committee be appointed, to consist of 
one delegate from each State represented, and one from the District of Colum- 
bia, to be selected by their respective delegations, to nominate suitable persons to 
fill the above named offices, and that they report to-morrow at the opening of the 
Convention. 

Tt'ESDAY, May 8, 1832. 

The Convention met, agreable to adjournment. 

Prayer by the Reverend Mr. Palfrey. 

Mr. Flagg, of South Carolina, from the committee appointed to recommend 
officers for the Convention, reported that they had selected the following gentle- 
men: 

President, William Cost Johnson, of Maryland. 

First Vice President, William Lush, of New York. 

Second Vice President, Charles James Faulkner, of Virginia. 

Third Vice President, William P. Fessenden, of Maine. 

Fourth Vice President, George W. Burnet, of Ohio. 

First Secretary, George P. Molleson, of New^ Jersey. 

Second Secretary, J. K. Angell, of Rhode Island. 

Which report was unanimously adopted. 

On being conducted to the chair, Mr. Johnson returned his acknowledgements, 
as follows: 

GENTLt',MEN: Unaccustomed, from my pursuits in life, to public speaking, I rise, 
under the influence of much embarrassment, to return you my sincere and grateful 
thanks for the honor your kindness has thus conferred on me; but regret tliat your 
choice has not fallen on a more worthy member of this Convention. 



I am convinced, gentlemen, that no personal merit of mine has elicited this ap- 
pointment, but that it has been conferred on the State which I in part have the 
honor to represent. Bringing with me to this station but little more than the will 
to dedicate my best exertions to its duties, and being but slightly conversant with 
parliamentary rules, I should have shrunk with self-distrust from the task, were 
I not sustained by the hope, that the generosity which prompted your choice will 
not be withheld, but that your liberal indulgence and co-operation will be extend- 
ed to me, and that, over the errors I may commit, in discharge of the arduous and 
multiform duties of this station, the broad mantle of your forbearance and cha- 
rity will be thrown. 

Deeply penetrated with the importance of this Convention, and viewing it as 
auspicious of the safety and permanency of our free institutions, I am convinced 
that that indulgence and good feeling the Chair invokes for itself will be extended 
to all its members. In an assembly like the present — so numerous, so patriotic, 
and so talented — the necessity of harmony and order, to give efficacy to our pro- 
ceedings, must be apparent. 

The eyes, gentlemen, of the whole nation are upon you and your deliberations; 
and I am sure that nothing will characterize them but zeal, concert, and union. 
Coming, as you do, warm from the bosom of your constituents — from the North, 
the South, the East, and the West — animated by one motive, and determined to 

ftromote one great object, I trust that no sectional feelings will distract your de- 
iberations, but that all interests will be merged in the great interest of the Na- 
tional Republican party. 

Proceeding, therefore, with this concert of action and intensity of purpose, we 
shall discharge our duties with honor to our constituents and ourselves, and dif- 
fuse, from this common centre, throughout this widely extended confederacy, an 
influence and opinions worthy the great cause that has brought us together. 

The members being then called, more than three hundred delegates answered 
to their names. 

[The names of all the delegates, together M'ith their post offices, as far as as- 
certained, will be found at the close of the proceedings of the Convention.] 
On motion of Mr. Semmes of Maryland, it was 

Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention be presented to Zaccheus Colins 
Lee, Esq. of Washington, for the ability and dignity withwhich he has presided over 
the deliberations of the Convention, as President pro tem. And also, to James 
Barbour, jun. of Virginia, for the ability with which he discharged his duties as 
Secretary pro tern. 

On motion of Mr. Duer, of New York, it was 

Resolved, That a committee be appointed, to consist of five members, whose duty 
it shall be to report to this Convention, what subjects, in their opinion, it may be 
proper and expedient for this Convention to consider, and the best and most con- 
venient mode of considering the same. And that said committee further re- 
port, such rules and regulations, if any, as they may deem necessary to govern 
the proceedings of the Convention. 

The following gentlemen were appointed to constitute said committee. 

Mr. Duer, of New York, Mr. Hunter, of Virginia, Mr. Piatt, of Ohio, Mr. 
CoALE, of Maryland, Mr. Little, of Pennsylvania. 

On motion of Mr. Cumming of Ohio, it was 
Resolved, That, from and after this day, this Convention will assemble twice a 
day. The hour for assembling in the morning to be nine o'clock, and the hour of 
adjournment eleven o'clock. The hour for assembling in the afternoon to be 
four o'clock, and the hour of adjournment for the day to be determined by the 
convention. 
And the Convention adjourned. 

Wednesday, May 9th. 

The Convention again assembled, and after prayer by the Reverend Mr. Hatch, 
of the Episcopal Church, Mr. Duer, of New York, from the Committee for that 
purpose, reported the following business for the consideration of the Convention. 

1st. A nomination of President and Vice President of the United States. 

2d. The appointment of a committee to drauglit an address to the National Re- 
publican Young Men of the United States- 

3d. A committee to draught resolutionsexpressive ofthe sense of this Convention. 



Which report being accepted, David Graham, jun. of New York, rose, and 
proposed the folIowinH; resolution: 

Resolved, That this Convention, entertaining the highest sense of the talents, 
patriotism, and integrity of HKNRYCLAV, of Kentucky, and of the purely 
American feeling which induced the National Republican Convention, held at 
Baltimore on the 12th of December last, to nominate him as a candidate for the 
Presidency of the United States at the ensuing election, do most cordially concur in 
that nomination, and recommend him to the support of the Young Men of the 
United States. 

Which, being seconded by Mr. Faulkner, of Virginia, was received with great 
applause, and unanimously adopted. 

Mr. Cref.d, of Ohio, then submitted the following resolution: 

Resolved, That, having the highest sense of the moral worth, integrity, and 
uncompromisi:ig patriotism of JOHN SERGEANT, of Pennsylvania, this Con- 
vention do most heartily concur in his nomination as a candidate for the office of 
Vice President ot the United States at the coming election, and earnestly recom- 
n^end hun to the support of the Young Men of the'United States. 

Which, being seconded by Mr. Axderson, of Ken., was unanimously adopted. 

It was then, on motion of Mr. Constablk, of Maryland, 

Resolved, That a committee, consisting of one delegate from each State and 
the District ot Columbia, be appointed by the President, to draught an Address to 
the Young Men ot the United States, settiitg forth the objects and views of this 
Convention. 

And the following' gentlemen were selected for this purpose: 

From Maine — R. H. Vose, 

Vermont — John M. Pomeroy, 
New Hampshire— \\^\x\\>Aqw Cutts, 
Massachusetts — William Lincoln, 
Rhode Island— W. W. Hoppen, 
Connecticut — A. N. Skinner, 
New YorkS. ]i. Blunt, 
New Jersey— ^ . P. B. Maxwell, 
Pennsylvania — J. A. Denney, 
/)e/f«6'«re— Charles Marini, 
Maryland — Albert Constable, 
Virginia — Alexander Stuart, 
South Carolina — H. C. Flagg, 
Louisiana — S. Brown, 
Ohio — H. E. Spencer, 
Kentucky — Rd. Pindell, 
District 'of Columbia — Z. C. Lee. 

^ On motion of Mr. Flagg, of South Carolina, seconded by Mr. Perkins, of 

Connecticut, it was 

Resolved, That a committee, consisting of one individual from each State re- 
presented in this Convention, and the District of Columbia, be appointed to 
draught resolutions upon such subjects as shall be deemed proper to be acted upon 
by this Convention. 

The following gentlemen were accordingly selected for this purpose: 

Messrs. William Paine, of Maine; E. Seymour, of Vermont; T. Darling, of 

New Hampslure; Thomas Kinnicutt, of Massachusetts; James Anthony, of 

Rhode Islaml; C. M. Emerson, of Connecticut; C. Morgan, jun. of New York; 

J. D. Miller, ot New Jersey; E. T. M'Dowell, of Pennsylvania; Evan H. 

Ihomas, of Delaware; Thomas G. Pratt, of Maryland; Andrew Hunter, of Vir- 

gima; Henry C. Flagg, of South Carolina; S. Brown, of Lo'.nsiana; William N. 

Bullitt, o{ Kentucky; Edward H. Cumming, of Ohio; Thomas P. Coleman, of 

the District ol Columbia. 

The Convention then adjourned. 



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Thursday, May lOth. 

The Convention was called to order at 9 o'clock. Prayer was offered up by the 
Reverend Mr. Post, of the Presbyterian Church. The names of the several del- 
egates who had arrived in the city, and reported themselves, were then read over, 
and it appeared there were 316 members in attendance. 

Mr. Steuart, of Maryland, submitted the following; which was unanimously 
agreed to: 

Resolved^ That a committee, consisting of one delegate from each State re- 
presented in this Convention, and one from the District of Columbia, be appointed 
to wait on Henry Clay, of Kentucky, and inform him of the unanimous concur- 
rence of the National Republican Young Men of the United States, in Convention 
assembled, in his nomination to the office of President of the United States; 
and that they extend to him the assurance ot the profound respect entertained by 
this Convention tor his exalted virtues, his comprehensive intelligence, and his 
uncompromising patriotism; and ascertain at what time and place it will be agreea- 
ble to him to receive the respects of this Convention. 

The committee appointed were as follows: - 
Messrs. Gardiner, of Maine; Prentiss, of Vermont; Darling, of New Hamp- 
shire; Prescott, of Massachusetts; Wilkinson, of Rhode Island; Burgess, ot Con- 
necticut; Van Schaick, of New York; Halsey, of New Jersey; Jackson, of Penn- 
sylvania; Cook, of Delaware; Steuart, of Maryland; Barbour of Virginia; Flagg, of 
South Carolina; Brown, of Louisiana; Atwood, of Ohio; Johnson, of Kentucky; 
Bradley, of the District of Columbia; Beall, of Michigan. 
On motion ot Mr. Gamage, it was unanimously 
ResolvecL That a committee, consisting of one delegate from each State repre- 
sented, and one from the District of Columbia, be appointed, to inform John 
Sergeant, of Pennsylvania, of the unanimous and hearty concurrence of the Young 
Men of the United States, in Convention assembled, in his nomination to the 
office of Vice President of the United States. 
The committee was composed of the following gentlemen: 
Messrs. Barrett, of Maine; Austin, of Vermont; Avery, of New Hampshire; 
Crowninshield, of Massachusetts; D'Wolf, of Rhode Island; Emerson, of Con- 
necticut; Gamage, of New York; Kaighn, of New Jersey; Hanna, of Pennsylvania; 
Rodney, of Delaware; Bradford, of Maryland; Robinson, of Virginia; Flagg, of 
South Carolina; Brown, of Louisiana; Casey, of Ohio; Blane, of Kentucky; 
Kinsley, of the District of Columbia; Beall, of Michigan. 

On motion of Mr. Brantz Mayer, of Maryland, seconded by Mr. Van Schaick, 
of New York, it was unanimously 

Resolved^ That a committee be appointed by the Chair, which shall consist of 
one delegate from each State represented in this body, and one from the District 
of Columbia, whose duty it shall be to express to Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 
the last surviving signer of our Declaration of Independence, the high sense enter- 
tained by the members of this Convention of the virtues of himself and associates, 
and of their labors in the great cause of national union and independence. 
The committee appointed were — 

Messrs. Hubbard, of Maine; Rich, of Vermont; Cutts, of New Hampshire; 
Chapman, of Massachusetts; Rhodes, of Rhode Island; Harris, of Connecticut; 
Graham, of New York; Tuttle, of New Jersey; Roberts, of Pennsylvania; 
M'Comb, of Delaware; Mayer, of Maryland; E. P. Hunter, of Virginia; Flagg, of 
South Carolina; Brown, of Louisiana; Pease, of Ohio; Pindell, of Kentucky; 
Forrest, of District of Columbia; Beall, of Michigan. 

On motion of Mr. Halsey, of New Jersey, seconded by Mr. Sandford, of 
Connecticut, it was 

Resolved, That this Convention is desirous of visiting the tomb of George 
Washington, and that a committee be appointed, respectfully to apprize the pro- 
prietor of the estate of Mount Vernon ot the wish of the Convention, and to make 
suitable arrangements to carry this resolution into effect. 

On motion of Mr. Lee, of the District of Columbia, seconded by Mr. Flagg, 
of South Carolina, it was 

Resolved, That the National Republican Young Men of the United States, in 
this Convention assembled, do highly aoorove of th(» \;isdom and firmness of the 



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Senate of the United States, in rejecting the nomination of MARTi>f Van Burev 
as Minister to England; and also applaud the independence and patriotism of 
John C. Calhoun, Vice President of tlie United S^tates, in giving the casting 
vote on that occasion. 
The Convention then adjourned. 

Friday, May lOth. 

The Convention met at 9 o'clock. 

After prayer by the Reverend Mr, Hilt, of the Methodist F.piscopal church, 

Mr. Steuart, of Maryhmd, from the committee appointed to wait upun Mr. 
Clay, made the following report, accompanied by the correspondence annexed: 

The Committee appointed to wait upon Mr. Clay, and make arrangements for 
his reception, respectfully report: 

That they have had the same under consideration, and, after mature delibera- 
tion, recommend that Mr. Clay be waiti-d upon by a sub-committee, consisting 
of John M. Steuart, Edward G. Prescott, and FI. C. Flagg, at ten o'clock this 
morning, who shall conduct him to a seat on the right hand of the President; (hat 
the chairman of this committee shall introduce him to the President, and the 
President introduce him to the Convention. After being introduced to the Con- 
vention, which shall rise on the announcing of his name, the Pi'esident shall ad- 
dress him on behalf of the Convention, and the Convention shall, without being 
seated, receive his answer. It is further especially recommended, that no de- 
monstration, by applauding, be made by the Convention, until after Mr. Clay shall 
have answered the President's address. All which is respectfully submitted. 



The Committee to Mr. Clay. 

Washington, May 10, 1832, 
To Hon. Henrv Clay: 

Sir: The undersigned, appointed a committee, by the National Republican 
Young Men now assembled in the city of Washington, to announce to you the 
following resolution,* passed unanimously by that body, beg leave to tender to you 
the assurance of the respect of the Convention for your virtues, genius, and patri- 
otism, and request to be informed at what time it will suit your convenience to 
comply with the wishes of the Convention, as expressed in t.»e lesolution. 
With great respect, 

JOHN M. STEUART, of Maryland, Chairman. 

R. H. GARDINER, of Maine. 

SAMUEL B. PRENTISS, of Vermoyit. 

EDWARD G. PRESCOTT, of Massachusetts. 

EDWARD S. WILKINSON, of Rhode Island. 
• . D. BURGESS, of Connecticut. 

# J. B, VAN SCHAICK, of Xew Fork. 

C, H. HALSEY, of Xew Jersey. 

GEO. W.JACKSON, of Pennsylvania. 

LEVI G. COOCH, of Delaware. 

JAMES BARBOUR, Jr. of Virginia. 

HENRY C. FLAGG, of South Carolina. 

S. BROWN, of Louisiana. 

J. S. A'TWOOD, of Ohio. 

F. J. JOHNSON, of Kentucky. 

JOSEPH H. BRADLEY, of 'the District of Columbia. 

SAMUEL W. BE ALL, of Michigatu 
" For resolution see preceding- pag-e. 



uUr. Clay-s Reply. 

Washington, 10/A Mcty, 1832. 
Genti,kmek: 

I have received your note of this day, communicating a copy of a resolution 
adopted by the National Republican Convention of Young Men, now assembled 
in tins city, announcing their unanimous concurrence in rny nomination as a can- 
didate for President of the United States, and expressing a desire to be informed 
of the time when it would be convenient for me to receive them in a body. 

I request, gentlemen, that you will convey to the Convention the very high de- 
gree of satisfaction which I have derived from this testimony of their confidence 
and approbation. Proceeding as it does from gentlemen voluntarily called from 
all parts of the Union, prompted by no othei- than the most patriotic motives, the 
impression' on my mind is as deep and gratifying as it will be permanent and 
grateful. 

Presuming that it will be agieeable, as it will be most convenient, that I should 
meet the Convention at the hall which has been provided for their accommodation 
in this city, I will wait on them to-morrow morning, at 10 o'clock, unless they 
should be pleased to indicate some other more suitable hour and place. 

I have the honor to be, with great respect, your obedient servant, 

H.CLAY. 

John M. Steuiirt, Chairman, and Messrs. R. II. Gardiner, 
Samuel B. Prentiss, Timothy Darling, Edward G. 
Prescott, Edward S. Wilkinson, D. Burgess, ,T. B. 
Van Schaick, C. H. Halsey, George W. Jackson, 
L,evi G. Cooch, James Barbour. Jan. Henry C. Flagg, 
S. Brown, J. S. Atwood, F. J. Johnson, Joseph H. 
Bradley, Samuel W. Beall, &c. 



At 10 o'clock Mr. Clay entered the hall of the Convention, and was intror- 
duced by the committee to the President, and by him to the Convention gene- 
rally. 

The President then rose, and addressed Mr. Ci,Avas follows: 
Sir: 

As the organ, and in the name of the National Republican Young Men in this 
Convention assembled, I welcome your presence on this interesting occasion, and 
tender to you, in their behalf, the respects, the gratitude, antl the admiration of 
those that surround you. Your private worth and public services have placed 
you before them — the object of their patriotic labois and hopes. 

About to close the duties that brought us together, we could not, as a body, 
separate, without this offering of our feelings and sentiments'to the man whose 
name and principles are associated with the liberty and glorj* ff our beloved 
country. • 

With such a name, arid such principles, we go forth united and active in a 
great cause; and feel assured, that, in an appeal to the Young Men of America, 
the CoNsrrruTioN and Hexry Clay will be triumphant. 

To which Mr. Clay replied, with much feeling, as follows: 

Mr. President, and Gentlemen of the Convention: 

In conformity with your lesolution, communicated through a committee of 
your body, I have the honor of presenting myself before you; and 1 avail myself 
of the occasion to express the deep and grateful sense which I entertain of the 
distinguished proofs which you have on this, and other days of your session, given 
to me, of your esteem and confidence. Should I be called by the People of the 
United States to the administration of their Executive Government, it shall be 
my earnest endeavor to fulfil their expectations: to maintain, with iirmness and 
dignity, their interests and honor abroad: to eradicate every abuse and corrup- 
tion at home; and to uphold, with vigor, and equality, and justice, the supremacy 
of the constitution and the laws. 

Our greatest interest in this world, isour Liberty. Derive<l from our ancestors, 
by whose valor and blood it was established, it depends upon the vigilance, virtue, 
and intelligence, of the present generation, whether it shall be preserved ana 



transmitted to pusterity, as (he most precious of all eiuthly possessions. Next to 
that, in importance, is our Union, indissolubiy connected with it, also derived 
from the lathers of our country- But what wo want is a practical, efficient, and 
powerful Union — one that shall impartially enforce the laws towards all, whether 
individuals or communities, who are justly subject to their authority— a Union 
which, if it shall ever be deemed necessary to chide one member of the Confede- 
racy, for rash and intemperate expressions, threatening its disturbance, will 
snatch violated laws and treaties from beneath the feet of another inember, and 
deliver free citiz.ens of the United States from unjust and ignominious imprison- 
ment. 

Gentlemen, it belongs to you, and the young men of your age, to decide whether 
these great blessings of Liberty and Union shall be defended and preserved. The 
responsibility which attaches to you is immense. It is not our own country atone 
that will be affected by the result of the great experiment of self-government 
which will be shortly committeil exclusively to your hands. The eyes of all 
civilized nations are intensely gazing upon us; and it may be truly asserted that 
the fate of Liberty throughout the World, mainly depends upon the maintenance 
of American Liberty. May you, gentlemen, be deeply penetrated with the mag- 
nitude of the sacred trust confided to you. May you transfuse into the bosoms 
of your contemporaries the enthusiasm which burns in your own ! And may the 
career on which you are all just entering, be long, and happy, and illustrious ! 

The Convention then adjourned for half an hour. 

On being again called to order, 

Mr. N. B. Blunt, of New York, from the committee appointed to draught an 
address to the young men of the United States, reported an address which had 
been prepared by the committee; which, being read, was unanimously adopted. 

Mr. KiNxicuT, of Massachusetts, from the Committee on Resolutions, report- 
ed the following: 

1. RcHolved, That, in the opinion of this Convention, although the fundamental 
principles adopted by our fathers, as a basis upon which to rear the superstruc- 
ture of American independence, can never be annihilated, yet the time has come 
when nothing short of the united energies of all the friends of the American Re- 
public can be relied on, to sustain and perpetuate that hallowed work. 

2. Resolved^ That an adequate protection to American industry is indispensa- 
ble to the prosperity of the country: and that an abandonment of the policy at 
this period would be attended with consequences ruinous to the best interests of 
the nation. 

3. Reaolved, That a uniform system of internal improvements, sustained and 
supported by the General Government, is calculated to secure, in the highest de- 
gree, the harmony, the strength, and the permanency of the Republic. 

4. Resolved, That the Supreme Court of the United States is the only tribunal 
recognized by the constitution for deciding, in the last resort, all questions aris- 
ing under the constitution and laws of the LJnited States, and that, upon the pre- 
servation of the authority and jurisdiction of that court inviolate, depends the ex- 
istence of the Union. 

5. Resolved, That the Senate of the United States is pre-eminently a conser- 
vative branch of iho Federal Government; that, upon a tearless and independent 
exercise of its constitutional functions, depends the existence of the nicely balan- 
ced powers of tiiat Government; and that all attempts to overawe its (ielibera- 
tions, by the public press, or by the national Executive, deserve the indignant 
reprobation of every American citizen. 

t;. Resolved, That the political course of the present Executive has given us no 
pledge that he will defend and support these great principles of American policy 
and of the constitution; but, on the contrary, has convinced us that he will aban- 
don them whenever the purposes of party require. 

7. Resolved, That the indiscriminate removal of public officers, for a mere dif- 
ference of political opinion, is a gross abuse of power; and that the doctrine lately 
" boldly preached" in the Senate of the United States, that to the " victor belong 
the spoils of the enemy," is detrimental to "the interests, corrupting to the morals, 
and dangerous to the liberties oi'the People of this country. 

8. Resolved. That we hold the disposition shown by the present national ad- 
ministration, to accept the advice of the K.iiig of Holland, touching the north- 
eastern boundary line of the United States, and thus to transfer a portion of the 



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territory and citizens of a State of this Union to a foreign Power, to manifest a 
total destitution of patriotic American feeling; inasmuch as we consider the life, 
liberty, property, and citizenship, of every inhabitant of every State, as entitled 
to the national protection. 

9. Resolved, That the arrangement between the United States and Great Bri- 
tain relative to the colonial trade, made in pursuance of the instructions of the 
late Secretary of State, was procured in a manner derogatory to the national 
character, and is injurious to this country in its practical results. 

10. Resolved, That it is the duty of every citizen of this Republic, who regards 
the honor, the prosperity, and the preservation of our Union, to oppose, by every 
honorable measure, the re-election of Andrew Jackson, and to promote the elec- 
tion of Henrv Clay, of Kentucky, and John Sergeant, of Pennsylvania, as Pre- 
sident and Vice President of the United States. 

On molion of Mr. Buell, of New York, it was 
Resolved, That the wasteful expenditures and improvident contracts made by 
the present Postmaster General, and his indiscriminate removal from office of so 
many hundreds of individuals throughout these United States, for no other reason 
but their refusal to sacrifice their honor, evince either a total ignorance of official 
duties, or an utter destitution of moral worth in the presiding officer of that De- 
partment, and a lamentable recklessness of principle in our Chief Magistrate, who 
sustains and upholds him. 



Saturday, May \2th. 

On motion of Mr. Sargent, of Pennsylvania, it was 
Resolved, That this Convention accept, with pleasure, the report of the Ameri- 
can Colonization Society, politely tendered in behalf of that society by the Rev. 
R. R. Gurley, and that the thanks of this Convention be presented to him for the 
same. 

On motion of Mr. Flagg, of South Carolina, it was 
Resolved, That the thanks of the Convention be presented to Messrs. Gales & 
Seaton, for their politeness in furnishing to the members of the Convention extra 
numbers of the National Intelligencer, and in the presentation of pamphlets. 

On motion of Mr. Alvord, of Massachusetts, it was 
Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention be presented to the Rev. Clergy 
of Washington, who have kindly officiated at our meetings. 

On motion of Mr. Pomeroy, of Vermont, it was 

Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention be tendered to the Committee for 
the District of Columbia ibr the arrangements made by them for the accommoda- 
tion of the Convention. 

On motion, the thanks of the Convention were presented to the President, Vice 
Presidents, and Secretaries, for the ability with which they had discharged their 
several duties. 

The President then, on behalf of himself and his associates in office, returned 
his acknowledgments to the Convention as follows: 

Gentlemen: I am unwilling to let the present opportunity pass without ten- 
dering to you, for myself, and on behalf of those who have been associated 
with me, in this expression of your approbation, our profound and lasting acknow- 
ledgments. When first called on to preside over the deliberations of this Conven- 
tion, I accepted the honor with distrust, and only upon the belief that your for- 
bearance and co-operation would lend their influence to the discharge ot the ar- 
duous duties of the station. Nor have I been disappointed: for the high estimate 
which I then formed of the generosity and indulgence of this Convention, has 
been most amply realized. All that [ can tender you, gentlemen, for so many 
marks of your friendly consideration, is the lasting gratitude of my heart. 

I will not let the present opportunity escape without congratulating you, gentle- 
men, and the National Republican Young Men throughout the country, who elect- 
ed you, upon the courteous and successful manner in which the deliberations of this 
Convention have been conducted. Meeting, gentlemen, as you have, from the op- 
posite extremities of the Union, from every portion of this extensive confederacy, 
no local considerations, no sectional interests, have for a single instant arrested the 



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harmony or the unanimity of your deliberations. The high and patriotic purpose for 
which you assembled has been your only consideration; and every other feeling, 
every other motive, has been united in one animated eftbrt to advance what you 
conceive the best interest of our common country. From every portion of this 
hall, from every quarter of the Union, there has been, as it were, but one voice, 
but one interest, but one great and undivided purpose. This Convention is novel 
in its kind. Trace back the annals of all history, and this will be found to be the 
first instance in which the young men of a whole nation, alarmed for the institu- 
tions of their country, and anxious to wipe away the national disgrace inflicted by 
servile, incompetent, and unworthy rulers, have assembled in solemn Convention. 
They liave assembled for no other purpose than to produce that concert of action 
and co-operation, as will by its influence rescue the constitution and the violated 
laws from an imbecile and corrupt Executive, and place them in the hands of 
abler and better men. And who that has observed the character and talent of 
this Convention, that will not be convinced of its salutary results, and see in it 
the highest assurance of the strong moral and political influence that it will diffuse 
in every region of the Union — composed as it is of upwanls of three hundred 
members, all freely interchanging views and opinions characterized by the 
strictest deference and comity, each liberal in sentiment and elevated in bearing, 
and manifesting an identity of purpose, a conjunction of zeal, animation, ana 
firmness, that augurs the most salutary and successful results. And I do 
not hesitate the belief that each member of this large and talented Convention will 
leave this city wilh a warm and firm purpose to exert all his powers of mind and 
person to infuse a zeal in every State, in every county, in every town, and in 
every neighborhood, to animate the young men throughout the whole Union to a 
proper sense of their influence in sustaining the principles which have been here 
sanctioned and promulged to sustain the American policy, and independence, 
and dignity of our country, by placing in the highest offices of the Government 
Henry Clay and Joiix Sergeant, whose names are identified with all that is 
pure in patriotism, elevated in honor, disinterested in friendship, open, frank, 
and manly, or essential to preserve pure our constitution, the policy of our coun- 
try, and the happiness, prosperity, and liberty, of the People. 

But the hour admonishes me that I am trespassing: for 1 am detaining the boat 
that is to bear the members of this Convention to the shades of Mount Vernon, 
where we purpose paying a solemn tribute of respect at the tomb of our belovecl 
Washington, whose name hallows and is halhnved. 

In conclusion, therefore, allow me, gentlemen, to express a hope that the gene- 
rous and social feelings which have pervaded our intercourse will be cultivated 
and cherished; and when we separate, as we soon must, that we will all still be 
united in feelings and in principles, and that there be carried on without restraint 
a full and frank correspondence on all subjects of social and political interest. I 
shall always cherish with exquisite fondness the recollection of the many valuable 
and worthy acquaintances I have here formed. And in now closing our labors, 
wish you, in the sincerity of my feelings, not only a safe and pleasant journey 
home to your families and your friends, but that your journey thnjugh life may be 
long, useful, and profitable, and crowned with honor to yourselves and your 
country. 
The Convention then adjourned sine die. 

CORRESPONDENCE. 

Washington, May 10, 1R32. 

Sir: Tiie undersigned, a committee on behalf of the Convention of National 
Republican Young Men, convened at the City of Washington, for the purpose of 
nominating candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United 
States, to be supported by tliein at the ensuing election,, have been instructed re- 
spectfully to communicate to you the following resolution unanimously adopted 
by that body: 

" Resolved, That, having the highest sense of the moral worth, integrity, and 
uncompromising patriotism of John Sergeant, of Pennsylvania, this Convention 
do most heartily concur in his nomination as a candidate for the office of Vice 
President of the United States, at the coming election, and earnestly recommend 
him to the support of the Young Men of the United States." 



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Permit us, sir. to add the expression of the high respect entertained for your 
character by the members of this committee respectively. 

THADDEUS P. ROBINSON, Virginia. 
EDWARD GAMAGE, I^ew Fork. 
JAMES HANNA, Pennsylvania. 
WILLIAM F. D'WOLF, Rhode Island. 
GEORGE P. AVERY. New Hampshire. 
G. C. CROWNINSHIELD, Massachusetts. 
HENRY F. RODNEY, Delaware. 
SENECA AUSTIN, Vermont. 
CHARLES KAIGHN, New Jersey. 
JOHN L. BLAINE, Kentucky. 
HENRY C. FLAGG, South Carolina. 
CHARLES E. BARRETT, Maine. 
S. BROWN, Louisiana. 
G. W. BURNET, Ohio. 
BENJAMIN S. KINSEY, District Colutnbia. 
A. W. BRADFORD, Maryland, 
CHARLES M. EMERSON, Connecticut. 
S. W. BEALL, Michigan. 
To the Hon. John Sergeant. 



Philadelphia, May I2th, 1832, 

Gentlemen: Mr. Corbit has delivered to me your letter of the 10th inst, com- 
municating a resolution of the Convention of the National Republican Young Men 
lately assembled in the City of Washington, in which they express their unani- 
mous concurrence in my nomination as a candidate for the office of Vice Presi- 
dent of the United States, and recommend that nomination to the support of the 
Young Men of the United States. 

Be pleased, on behalf of the Convention, to accept my sincere acknowledg- 
ments for the honor they have done me in deeming. me worthy of their support 
for one of the highest trusts of the Republic. To have a place in the hearts and the 
minds of this interesting portion of our fellow-citizens, is a gratification of no or- 
dinaiy kind — it is greatly enhanced by the consideration, that the body from which 
the expression of regard has come, has, in the short period of its session, acquired 
for itself a clear title to peculiar respect, by the talent, the dignity, and the tho- 
rough acquaintance with our Republican institutions, which nave so eminently 
distinguished its deliberations and proceedings. 

For the members of the Convention, for their constituents, and for our beloved 
country, I humbly implore the contiimed favor of a gracious Providence, whose 
aid alone can enable us rightly to perform the various duties that may fall to our 
lot. 

I beg you to accept my thanks for the kind expressions in your letter, together 
with the assurance of the respect and regard of, gentlemen, your friend and fel- 
iow citizen, 

JOHN SERGEANT. 

To Thaddeus P. Robinson, JLsq.and others, a Committee of the Convention of 
National Repicblican Young Men. 



The Committee appointed by the Convention to wait upon the venera 
Carroll, of Carrollton, waited on that venerable patriot, in pursu 



rable Charles 
rsuance of their 
appointment, and, after being announced to him, 

Mr. Brantz Mayer, the chairman, addressed him as follows: 
Respected Sir: 

Three hundred young men, from all parts of this extended Union, lately 
convened iii the city of Washington, have deputed me, as chairman of a comsnit- 
tee appointed by them, to hand you the letter which I now iiave the honor to pre- 
sent. And, in doing so, suffer me, sir, for myself and for the gentlemen around, 
to observe, that we will ever deem this one of the proudest days of our lives, and 
cherish in our bosoms, to the last hour of our existence, *'*e deepest respect and 



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warmest admiration for him who, in connexion with the departed fathers of our 
Revolution, gave that impulse to human freedom which is now regenerating the 
world. 
I beg leave, sir, to read you the following letter: 

To Charles Carru/l, of C<irrolllon: 

Washington, May 12, 1832. 

Sir: The National Republican Young Men assembled in Convention, in this 
city, beg leave, with gie;it respect, to tender you an expression of their gratitude 
for your eminent services as a distinguished patriot of the Revolution. 

It is a duty which they are proud to discharge. The example of those who 
have gone before us is never without intluence. The one to wliicii we now look 
is of no ordinary cliaracter. 

In that band of patriots who first declared to the world the rational inalienable 
rights of man, and, in support of that declaration, staked their lives, their tor- 
tunes, and their sacred honors, wiio. in moral excellence and courage, in iirniness 
of purpose, and purity ofheart. excelled Charlus Carroll, of CarroUton? Amidst 
that galaxy of talent, which, like a sign in tiie heavens, lighted our fathers through 
Q wildeinose of wi«ng>;, to itho goal of fittPilom, and ditVuscd its rays over tlie op- 
pressed, the suffering, and benighted, of all nuiions, no star burned with a more 
mtense, yet mild and steady blaze, than that which we contemplate, still bright, 
descending in the horizcm of freedom, and shedding its benignant lustre on ad- 
miring millions. 

May tliat star yet long remain in our unclouded sky, and only set to rise in 
"perfect glory!" 

We will humbly endeavor to walk by its light. 

BRANTZ MAYER, of Md. (Chairman) 

CALVIN J. HUBBARD, of Maine, 

J. RICH, of Vermont, 

HAMPDEN CUTTS, of New Hampshire, 

HENRY CHAPMAN, of Massachusetts, 

G. A. RHODE, of Rhode Island, 

DAVID GRAHAM, of New York, 

J. N. TUTTLE, of New Jersey, 

E. W. ROBERTS, of Pennsylvania, 

J. B. MACOMB, of Delaware, 

E. P. HUNTER, of Virginia, 

H. C. FLAGG, of S. Carolina, 

CALVIN PEASE, of Ohio, 

S. BROWN, of Louisiana. 

R. PINDELL, of Kentucky. 

G. FORREST, of D. Columbia. 

After Mr. Maykr had concluded, Mr. Carroll declared himself highly gratified 
by the expression of the feelings of the Young Men of the United States, and 
hoped that they might enjoy, uninterruptedly, through life, and transmit unimpair- 
ed to their posterity, the noble institutions of this happy land. 



Mr. Horxor, of New Jersey, from the Committee of Ways and Means, who 
were appointed to communicate with the proprietor of Mount Vernon, relative to 
a visit to the tomb of Washington, submitted thefollowingcorrespondence: which 
was read, and ordered to be entered on the Journal of the Convention: 

Washington City, May 10, 1832. 
John A. Washington, Esq. 

Sir: The undersigned having been appointed a committee, by the Young Men's 
National Republican Convention, now assembled in this city, for tlie purpose of 
expressing to you their desire to visit the tomb of George Washington, at Mount 
Vernon, respectfully, on their behalf, request your permission to manifest, in 
this manner, their regard and veneration for his virtues, his patriotism, and dis- 



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tin§uished merits, and the gratitude they owe to the father and benefactor of 
their country. 

With high respect, we have the honor to be, 
Sir, your most obedient servants, 

CALVIN R. HUBBARD, of Maine. 
JOSEPH P. STICKNEY, of New Hampshire. 
SAMUEL B. PRENTISS, of Vermont. 
JAMES C. ALVORD, of Massachusetts. 
THEODORE SILL, of Connecticut. 
GEORGE A. RHODES, of Rhode Island. 
JOSEPH DART, Jun. of New York. 
ROBERT E. HORNOR, of New Jersey. 
SAMUEL 0. JACOBS, of Pennsylvania. 
DANIEL CORBIT, of Delaware. 
JOHN B. WELLS, of Maryland. 
■ GEORGE C. POWELL, of Virginia. 
HENRY C. FLAGG, of South Carolina. 
JOHN N. JOHNSON, of Kentucky. 
GEORGE W. JONES, Jun. of Ohio. 

S- BROWN, of Luuisiana- 

GEORGE A. HYDE, of District of Columbia. 



Mount Vernon, May 10, 1832. 
To the Committee qfthe Young Men'' s National Republican Convention: 

Gentlemen: I am always gratified at every evidence of respect paid the 
memory of General Washington. No objection has ever been made to any one's 
visiting the tomb, who feels disposed to do so, except on the Sabbath, or in steam- 
boat parties. So respectable a body, therefore, as the Young Men's National 
Republican Convention, cannot be otherwise than welcome to visit the tomb, 
grounds, and mansion, of Washington. 

I am, gentlemen, very respectfully, 

■ Your most obedient, 

JOHN A. W ASHING TON. 

On motion of Mr. Chapman, it was 
Resolved, That the thanks of the Convention be presented to John A. Wash- 
ington, Esq. for the polite manner in which he has yielded to the wishes of the 
Convention. 



Immediately after adjournment, in pursuance of a resolution, the Members of 
the Convention proceeded in a body to Mount Vernon, when the Committee of 
Arrangements, consisting of Charles James Faulkner, of Virginia^ Henry 
Chapman, of Massachusetts; Robert E. Hornor, of New Jersey; Calvin Ma- 
son, of Pennsylvania; and David Graham, Jun. of New York, waited upon the 
Proprietor of the estate, and presented to him the respects of the Convention. 
The members of the delegation then formed in procession, and marched to the 
strains of a solemn dirge, in silence and uncovered, until they reached the Tomb 
of the illustrious Washington. The band then ceased, and the Farewell Ad- 
dress of the Father of his Country was read to the members of the Convention, 
in a most solemn and impressive manner, by Mr. Flagg, of South Carolina. The 
procession then left Mount Vernon in the same order as they approached, and 
proceeded to the City of Washington. 



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THE ADDRESS. 

To the Young Men of the United Stales: 

More than three hundred of your young fello\v-citiz.ens, delegates from seven' 
teen States and the District of Columbia, assembled in convention at the city of 
Washington, ask your attention to a subject ot the greatest importance to you, to 
ourselves, and to our common country. The selection of our rulers is ever a mat- 
ter of high interest, as the noblest privilege of a free people; but it becomes espe- 
cially so when on it may depend, as in the present crisis, the safety of our Consti- 
tution, and the permanency of our Union. Two individuals are now before you as 
prominent candidates for tlie highest office in your gift. Let us examine for a mo- 
ment their several qaluitications. The iirst is ANDREW JACKSON, the present 
incumbent, elected but three short years since by a triumphant majority. Fresh 
from the battle tield, with laurels as yet unfaded; unbiassed, as was supposed, by 
party feehng; untramelled by pre-conceived systems of policy; he was fondly 
hailed, a> omp wlm wnuhl intonn every abusp in giuprnuipnt; restore our institu- 
tions to more than their pristine purity; and rule solely for the good of his coun- 
try. Four objects he was especially pledged to accomplish. To reduce the ex- 
penses of Government; to abolish the practice of appointing members of Congress 
to office; to restrict the presidential service to a single term; and to destroy the 
" Monster, Party Spirit." And surely never vvas there a more favorable opportu- 
nity of redeeming such pledges.- Coming into power with a personal popularity 
almost unequalled, and at a time when the country was prosperous at home and 
respected abroad, harmonious in itself, and at peace with the world, he had every 
inducement to carry into ettect his favorite theories. But how has he performed 
these promises! Let facts answer. An increase in the expenditures of Govern- 
ment, amounting, during the three years of his administration, to more than ten 
millions of dollars; the appointment of nineteen members of Congress to office, 
more than twice the number appointed by any of his predecessors; his appearing 
not merely as a candidate, — but as a supplicant for continuance in office; these 
are alone sufficient to show the insincerity of his pledges, and also how flagrantly 
he has disappointed the hopes of his country. ' Tis true he has destroyed party spi- 
rit as it formerly existed — a contest for principles; but it has been only to revive 
it with a spirit purely selfish — a spirit that looks to him alone as its object; that 
acknowledges no principles but his will. An entire subserviency to this will, how- 
ever capricious and tyrannical, has now become the sole qualification for office; and 
without It, the united virtues and wisdom of an archangel would be wholly una- 
vailing Near fifteen hundred victims have already been sacrificed on its Moloch 
altar. No qualifications, no services, could save them. Those whose long and un- 
remitted attention to official duties had disqualified them tiom engaging in other 
pursuits, were not merely driven into beggary, but insulted, reviled, and perse- 
cuted, by the hireling ministers of his vengeance, merely because they could not 
believe, and would not declare, Andukw .Tackson to be the "Greatest and the 
Best" of men. Even the hoary veterans of the Revolution, who derived from 
some petty appointment the means of subsistence, (which a grateful country 
should have afforded in some more ample mode) were turned out of office to hide 
their penury in a welcome grave. The late Postmaster General, one of the most 
efficient officers ever possessed by any government, for refusing to become an in- 
strument in this ruthless proscription, was driven from the station he had filled 
with such honor to himself and his country, to make room for a tool of power. 

Let us next see what has been the course of General Jackson, in relation to' the 
most important features of our national policy. Is there a man from Maine to 
Florida, who knows his real sentiments with respect to those great interests of 
our country— internal improvement and the protection of domestic industry — or 
is there one, who regards his reputation for veracity, who can venture to affirm 
that he has any settled policy on these subjects, further than a determination to 
render them subservient to his darling project of securing his own re-election, or 
of smuggling his wily favorite into power? At one moment the South is to be 
gained, and the Executive veto is employed to stop an important work of internal 



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improvement. At the next the North is to be conciliated, and he sanctions other 
works of precisely the same character. On one day he is a friend of the tariff, and 
ready to enforce it at every hazard; on the next he advises to attack it in detail, 
and destroy it by piecemeal. Thus, while he alarms all interests, he satisfies 
none; for, while the northern manufacturers are aware, that, to secure the vote of 
the South, (could that elect him) he would be willing to reduce their flourishing 
manufactories to ruins; the southern planters may be equally certain, that, to 
gain the same object from the North, he would not hesitate to load them with taxes 
tar more grievous than those of which they now complain. On one branch of 
policy alone, has General Jackson been consistent. His opposition to the United 
States Bank, urged, again and again, with such zeal and perseverance, in despite 
of his constitutional advisers, and political friends, may indeed be regarded as 
proceeding from fixed opinion, or rather from a blind hatred to the institution, 
stronger than any opinion, originating in personal pique and hostility to a high 
officer of that institution, Jt is true, that, alarmed at the consequences of his op- 
position, he has lately intimated that he may change his opinions on this subject; 
but vyhat, that understands the character of the man, can be so infatuated as to 
imagine he will.^ We have yet graver charges to urge against the present admin- 
istration. The public press, once considered as the palladium of our liberties, 
has, as far as the means of the ExeciifivQ would allow, been bought .up, and ren- 
dered a mere instrument to answer his purposes. Editors, almost innumerable, 
have been rewarded, or purchased with the highest offices in his gift, and hun- 
dreds of pensioned presses scattereil throughout the land stand ever ready to do 
his bidding; to laud his vilest acts; to blacken the reputation of those he may wish 
to injure; and even to weaken, and, if possible, to destroy, the co-ordinate branch- 
es of Government, And these branches have been attacked in a manner which 
shows these hireling presses ready to assist their master in grasping even arbitra- 
ry power, and in prostrating at his feet all who oppose his will- 

The Senate, with manly independence, rejects an unworthy nomination, and it 
is at once assailed from every quarter, with epithets too foul to be merited by 
any but those who use them. The official organ of the Executive wil' dares even 
to propose to the American people, to abridge its term of service, and strip it of 
its powers. 

The Supreme Court of the United States, too, in the discharge of its highest, 
its holiest duties, thwarts the Executive's pleasure, and instantly, in answer 
to the angry denunciations of the would-be despot, the adder hiss of the press re- 
sounds throughout the land. Its decrees are not to be enforced — its power is to be set 
at defiance. 

But these are not the only acts of his mal -administration. The offices of Gov- 
ernment, created by the people for their own benefit, have, as one of his friends 
on the floor of the Senate shamelessly avowed, been seized upon as "the spoils of 
the victor," and openly used as bribes and rewards for partisan services. 

Persons grossly and notoriously incompetent and unfit — the defaulter, the 
drunkard, the debauchee, and even the fugitive felon, have been nominated for 
important stations; and when the Senate has refused to sanction his nominations, 
he has watched the absence of individual members, in order again to urge them. 
And when this could not be effected, he hasappointed his rejected favorites, during 
the recess of the Senate, to offices not requn-ing its concurrence. 

He has not only filled the existing subordinate departments of Government 
throughout the country, with the creatures of his will, but has also created new 
ones in order to reward them. 

He has not only employed the whole patronage of the Government to control 
popular elections, but has himself directly interfered in the election of members 
to Congress. 

He has not only permitted his satellites to assail the co-ordinate branches of the 
Government, but has even, by his own words and actions, sanctioned and appro- 
ved of their conduct. 

He has not only sanctioned the attacks made— by his official pensioned press— 
upon the Senate of the United States, but has also countenanced wanton personal 
violence, offered by his political partisans to members of Congress, in the dis- 
charge of their constitutional duties, thereby overawing the deliberations of Con- 
gress, and assailing the freedom of debate; and may we not apprehend, from 
the parasites of such an Executive, darker scenes of bloodshed and outrage with- 
in the very precincts of our capitol ! 



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He has dissolved his cabinet on pretences notoriously frivolous and untrue, and 
tor causes which we will not stain our Address by even enumerating. 

He has lent his assistance to oppress the hapless Cherokees, and lias encouraged 
the State of Georgia in resisting the laws of the Union. He has said that he 
will noi carry into eflect, as he is bound to do by his official oath, the decision of 
our tigiiest tribunal — the only expositor of our laws and our Constitution — and 
ha*, of his own mere will, declared null and void, laws of Congress, and solemn 
treaties, which, by the Constitution, are the .supreme laws of the land. 

And what can even his own party urge as a compensation for these acts of foul 
niisrule.^ They point to the extinguisliment of our national debt, and his success- 
ful negotiations with foreign Powers. For the first, he deserves as niuch applause 
as he does for the returning spring, (u- ior the approaching harvest; for in them he 
has equal agency. Most of the treaties of which he so proudly boasts were prepared, 
or matured by the previous administration. For onealone he deserves full credit — 
that with Great Jiritain, in relation to the M'est India trade. And this he has 
negotiated on terms which former administrations rejected as destructive to our 
trade, and derogatoiy to our national honor. 

One other negotiation General Jackson is most anxious to have sanctioned, and 
for that, too, we are willing to give him credit in anticipation. It is the one in 
relation to our Northeastern, boundary, by which a military communication be- 
tween two of her pro\inces is given to Great Britain, along our defenceless fron- 
tier, the integrity of a member of our Union violated, and millions of acres and 
hundreds of citizens sold for a ruined fortress. 

As a statesman and politician, then, GeneralJackson merits only the deepest 
reprobation of the people; and, should we even acknowledge the Chief Magistracy 
of our country to be a fit reward for mere military services, surely four years of 
wild misrule is a sufficient reward for one brilliant achievement; else, what, 
short of absolute and hereditary sway shall, in future times, be accorded to one 
who might emulate the deeds of Washington.^' 

But let us turn from this dark picture of corruption and imbecility, to brighter 
.scenes. The other prominent candidate for the Presidency, is Hknry Clay, of 
Kentucky — a man, whose iiigh praise it is, that he is American in every thought, 
in every feeling. He has been unanimously nominated for the office by a Con- 
vention of your fellow-citizens, raiely equalled for numbers, for talents, for intel- 
ligence, and patriotism; and that nomination is now as unaninujusly adopted by 
an assembly more numerous, and, as we iiope, not inferior in patriotism. We 
recommend him to your choice, as one combining every requisite for the Chief 
Magistrate of our free, extensive, and mighty Republic. Having spent the pre- 
ceding part of his life in the service, not of a State or a party, but of our country 
-;-our entire country — his expanded mind looks beyond the narrow limits of sec- 
tional interests, to the general good of the whole, and of every part. Almost the 
founder of our systems of internal improvement and domestic manufactures, his 
sentimmts on these important subjects have been openly avowed, and nobly de- 
fentled. To encourage and foster the industry of the North, the East, and the 
West, and, at the same time, to relieve the burthens of the South, are the grand 
objects of his policy. And who, we would ask, can be so well qualified to recon- 
cile the conflicting interests which are, even now, shaking the Union to its cen- 
tre, as he who, on the admission of Missouri, in like circumstances, perfi)rmed a 
similar achievement? As a man, of high and untarnished honor — as a statesman, 
firm, intelligent, consistent, tried in times of difliculty and danger — honored with 
the confidence of preceding Adn\inistrations, and fully imbued with their policy — 
as the firm advocate of the National Bank — as the unwavering supporter of the 
Fedeial Judiciary— -as the friend of the oppressed and helpless Indians — as the 
protector of our national domain, the public lands — as die champion of that con- 
stitution which he has never violated — we can repose in him, with confidence and 
safety, the highest trust of a free and enlightened people. 

Our candidate for the Vice Presidency has, in like manner, been unanimous- 
ly nominated; and that nomination unanimously approved by two successive 
Conventions. The high importance of this office, in itself, and the yet higher 
consequence it may assume, in an event not impossible, and contemplated by our 
constitution, render it necessary that it should be filled by a man of the highest 
talents, the most undoubted patriotism, and of the purest character. Such a one 



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is John Sergeant, of Pennsylvania— as, a. juv'isi, almost unequalled— as a states- 
man of the highest order, and purely National Republican in his principles— as a 
man, one of the noblest sons of a noble State — and we, unhesitatingly, recommend 
him to your support for the second office in the gift of the People. 

His intended opponent we will not name. It is the man whom our I'lational' 
Senate have branded as recreant to his country's cause, and as one who was will- 
ing to barter her unsullied honor for party purposes. 

Young' Men of the United States! After this brief statement of the qualifica- 
tions of the several candidates, we shall not insult you, by asking, which of them is 
your choice? There is not, there cannot be, room for hesitation. But this is not suf- 
ficient. You must not only think, but you must also act with us. Just entering on 
the business of life, you have a deeper, a far deeper, interest at stake, than those 
•whose career is already half completed; for to you belongs a double portion of 
the blessings secured by our tree and happy government, or a double portion of the 
bitter curses that must attend its overthrow. It is not in a hopeless conflict that 
we invoke your aid. The spring-tide of popularity which carried General Jack- 
son into office, is fast sinking to its lowest ebb. Thousands of his once warmest 
admirers have already deserted his cause— tens of thousands more, convinced of 
his incapacity and unfitness, wait but the solicitation of a friendly voice to join 
our ranks; and a thousand Utnes ten thousand of the honest citizens of our coun- 
try, only need proper information to follow their example. We call upon you, 
then, to act with the energy of youth, united with the firmness and wisdom of 
manhood. We call upon you to use every honorable means in your power» and 
to employ it to the utmost in support of our cause. Let no one say he can do 
nothing — let each act as though on his exertion alone depended our success^ 
Union, concert, and activity, can do every thing. Should we fail, the fault will 
be our own. Let us make the proper eftbrts, and success is certain. For this- 
WE PLEDGE TO EACH OTHER AND TO YOU, OUR NAMES, OUR 
EXERTIONS, AND OUR SACRED HONOR. 



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NAMES AND RESIDENCE OF THE DELEGATES 

TO THE 

l/*oung JfletVs JVational Republican Convention^ 

ASSEMBLED IN THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, 

May 7, 1832. 



Theodores. Brown, 
Charles Keene, 
Richard H. Vose, 
Calvin R, Hubbard, 
William P. Fessenden, 
William Paine, 
Charles E. Barrett, 
Robert H. Gardiner, Jr. 
Asa Barton, 
J. Jevvett, 
Thomas Fiilebrown, jr. 



Hampden Cutts, 
Timothy Darling, 
Moses G. Atwood, 
Joseph P. Stickney, 
George P. Avery, 
Samuel Smith, 



From Maine.— 11. 

Brown's Corner, Kennebec county. 
Augusta, do. do. 

Do. do. do. 

Emery's Mills, York county, 
Portland, Cumberland county, 
Bridgeton, do. do. 

Portland, do. do. 

Gardiner, Kennnebec county. 
Norway, Oxford county. 
Portland, Cumberland county. 
Washington, D. C. 

New Hampshire. — G. 

Portsmouth, Rockingham county. 
Loudon, Merrimack county. 
Concord, do. do. 

Do. do. 

Guilford, Strafford county. 
Francestow n, Hillsborough county. 

Massachusetts. — 30. 



Edward G. Prescott, 
Charles J. Hendee, 
J. Vincent Browne, 
Jacob Robbins, 
Horatio C. Merriam, 
Ephraim H. Bellows, 
John Avery, 
John Hobbs, 
Isaac L. Hedge, 
George C. Crowninshield, 
Robert W. Hooper, 
Thomas G. Appieton, 
Robert Campbell, 
Henry L. Sabin, 
James K. Kellog, 
George T. Davis, 
James C. Alvord, 
Henry Chapman, 
Francis Dwight, 
John Ames, 
Francis B. Stebbins, 
William Lincoln, 
Thomas Kinnicutt, 
Samuel Hartwell, 
Henry A. Delano, 
Amory H. Bowman, 
Edwin B. Tainter, 
Charles C. P. Hastings, 
Andrew D. McFarland, 
Donald Macleod, 



Boston, Suffolk county. 

Do. do. 

Do. do. 

Lowell, Middlesex county. 

Do. do. 

Concord, do. 
Lowell, do. 

Waltham, do. 
Plymouth, Plymouth county. 
Salem, Essex county. 
Boston. 

Do. 
Pittsfield, Berkshire county. 
Williamstown, do. 
Dalton, do. 

Greenfield, Franklin county. 
Do. do. 

Do. do. 

Springfield, Hampden county. 

Do. do. 

Brimfield, do. 

Worcester, Worcester county. 

Do. do. 

Southbridge, do. 
New Braintree, do. 
Do. do. 

Brook field, do. 

Mendon, do. 

Worcester, do. 

Northampton, Hampshire county. 



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Rhode: Island.— 7, 



Joseph K. Angeil, 
Wil iam W. Hoppen, 


Providence. 


Do. 


Edward S. Wilkinson, 


Pav.-t-cket. 


William F.D'Wolf, 


EnsLol, 


George A. Rhodes, 


Providence. 


William Marshall, 


Do. 


James Anthony, 


North Providence, 




Vermont. — 7.. 


Seneca Austin, 


Bridport. 


George W. Cumings, 


Windsor. 


Ozias Seymour, 


Middleburg„ 


V Samuel B. Prentiss, 


Montpelier. 


John N. Pomeroy, 


Burlington. 


Albert L. Catlin, 


Orwell. 


V. Rich, 


Shoreham. 




Connecticut. — 14. 


Oliver E. Williams, 


Hartford. 


Charles M. Emerson, 


do. 


Daniel Burges, 


do. 


Theodore Sill, 


Windsor. 


S. S. Stocking, 


Glastonbury. 


A. N. Skinner, 


New Haven, 


Rollin Sanford, 


Litchfield. 


Henry Mervvin, 


New Milford, 


George Perkins, 


Norwich. 


William C. Gil man, 


do. 


Arthur F. Gilman, 


do. 


Allen Harris, 


Plainfield. 


Elisha L. Fuller, 


do. 


David Gallup, 


Sterling. 




New York.— 26. 


David Graham, Jr. 


New York City. 


Nathaniel B. Blunt, 


do. 


Edward Gamage, 


do. 


lAVilliam Duer, 


do. 


Erastus C. Benedict, 


do. 


Isaac Teller, 


Fishkill, Dutchess county, 


William A. Davies, 


Poughkeepsie, do. 


Olney F. Wright, 


Coxsackie, Greene do. 


William H. Spencer, 


Athens, do. do. 


Oliver Davis, 


Newburgh, Orange do. 


Goldsmith Denniston, 


Blooming Grove, do. do. 


Samuel Curtis, Jr. 


Hudson, Columbia. 


Peter H. Silvester, 


Kinderhook, do. 


William Lush, 


Albany City, Albany. 


John B. Van Schaick, 


do. do. 


Henry H. Pease, 


Utica, Oneida. 


Samuel D. Dakin, 


do. -do. 


Sylvanus Holmes, 


do. do. 


John W. Proudfit, 


Salem, Washington. 


Julian G. Buel, 


Whitehall, do. 


George A. Simmons, 


Keeseville, Clinton. 


■^Christopher Morgan, Jr. 


Aurora, Cayuga. 


Henry K. Morrell, 


Lansing, Tompkins. 


Robert C. JohnsoH, 


Owego, Tioga. 
Buffalo, Erie. 


Seth C. Hawley, 


Jo«ph Dart, Jr. 


do. do. 



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Daniel D. Southard, 
Robert E- Hornor, 
J. Hamilton White, 
Charles Kai°;hn, 
Robert K. Matlack, 
AVm. P. vSluMinan, 
George P. MoUeson, 
J. Dickerson Miller, 
Dr. Thomas B. Gautier, 
John P. B. Maxwell, 
Joseph R. King, 
Charles Hoffman, 
Robert E. Thomson, 
Dr. John B. Tuft, 
Dr. Wm. Pearson, 
Charles H. Halsey, 
Joseph N. Tuttle, 
Caleb C. Ward, 
Wm. Johnson, junr. 
Silas Scisson, 
Peter Duryea, 
Jabez P. Pennington, 



David Landreth, Jr. 
James Hanna, 
Joseph G. Clarkson, 
George P. Little, 
Jacob B. Lancaster, 
Morgan Ash, 
Henry C. Corbit, 
Caleb Cope, 
William White, Jr. 
Charles Evans, 
Theodore M. Hart, 
Adam Woelper, Jr. 
Osmon Reed, 
Jabez AV. Small, 
Simon Jordan, 
Samuel O. Jacobs, 
William Heck, 
John L. Wridit, 
William WiUiamson, 
Isaac Downing, 
George Thomas, 
John Parker, 
Samuel McCIean, 
Henry K. Strong, 
Edmund W. Roberts, 
Augustus O. Heister, 
Serrill C. Lebaron, 
G. H. Bergoss, 
E. T. McDowell, 
Tliomas Watson, 
Nathan Sargent, 
William Irvin, 
Osten Kirten, 
George W. Hitner, 
E. M. Biddle, 
Robert H. Shannon, 
E. M, Read, 



Do. 


do. 


Do. 


do. 


Do. 


do. 


Do. 


ilu. 


Do. 


do. 


Do. 


do. 



New Jersey. — 22. 

Somerville, Somerset county, 
Princeton, do. do. 

Do. do. do. 

Camden, Gloucester county. 
AVoodbury, do. do. 
Trenton, Hunterdon county. 
New Brunswick, Middlesex county. 
Jersey City, Bergen do. 

Do. do. do. 

Belvidere, Warren county. 
Burlington, Burlington do. 
Andersontown, Warren county. 
Marksborough, do. do. 
Salem, Salem county. 
Orange, Essex do. 
Newark, do. do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 
do. 

Pennsylvania. — 46. 

. Philadelphia, 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 
Churchtown, Lancaster county, 
Lancaster, do. 

Columbia, Lancaster county, 
Westchester, 
Downingstown, 

Do. 
Parkersville, 

Do. 
Harrisburg, 

Do. 
Harrisburg. 

Do. 

Do. 
Doylestown, Bucks county, 

Do. Do. 

Huntingdon, Huntingdon county, 
Bellefont, Centre county. 



Do. 

Carlisle, 

Do. 
Harrisburg, 

Do. 



do. 



George A. Cook, 
George W, Jackson, 
William Little, 
Thomas L. Shields, 
Simon Jordan, 
Calvin Mason, 
Mordecai R. Moore, 
William K. McDonald, 
J. R. Denny, 



Dainiel Corbit, 
Thomas M. Rodney, 
Evan H. Thomas, 
Levi Cooch, 
John Higgins, 
Ignatius T. Cooper, 
Charles Marion, 
Samuel H. Hodson, 
Joseph G. Oliver, 
Doc. James P. Lofland, 
James B. Macomb, 
Henry F. Rodney, 
Benjamin Burton, 
George Frame, 
Caleb S. Layton, 



J. A. McKaleb, 
B. G. Harris, 
Wm. Cost Johnson, 
John W. Pratt, 
John B. Wells, 
Neilson Poe, 
John Sothoron, 
Cheston Ringgold, 
JohnC. Groome, 
Albert Constable, 
Augustus W, Bradford, 
L. E. Barber, 
J. Fenwick Brent, 
James S. Morsell, 
J. B. Burk, 
Daniel Kent, 
Wm. W. Laird, 
Joseph S. Cottman, 
John C. Kennedy, 
Robert Ghiselin, 
Wm. R. Foulke, 
Wm. Coale, 
Edgar M. Gattan, 
S- M. Semmes, 
Thomas Karney, 
Brantz Mayer, 
Thos G. Pratt, 
Philip Key, 
Edward Dubois, 
Benjamin E. Gant, 
John Davis, Jr. 
Tohn B. Ricaud, 
<.>;;n M. Steuart, 
Philip B. Key, 



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Pittsburg, 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 

Philadelphia county, 
York, York county, 
Montgomery county, 
Washington, Wasnino;ton county, 
Chambersburg, Franklin county. 

Delaware. — 15. 

Cantwell's Bridge, Newcastle county. 
Wilmington, do. 

Newcastle, do. 

Pencader, do. 

Delaware City, do. 

Dover, Kent county. 

Do. do. 
Smyrna, do. 
Mil ford, do. 

Do. do. 

Dover, do. 
Lewis, 

Millsborough, Sussex county. 
Georgetown, do. 

Do. do. 

Maryland.-^52. 

Taney Town, Frederick county. 
Leonard Town, St. Mary's do- 
Jefferson, Frederick do. 
Do. do. do. 
Annapolis. 
Frederick city. 
Benedict, Charles county. 
Hagerstown. 
Elkton. 
Rock Run. 
Baltimore. 

Leonardtown, St. Mary's. 
Charles county. 

Prince Frederick, Calvert county. 
Lower Marlborough. 

Do. 
Cambridge, Dorchester county. 
Princess Ann, Somerset county. 
Port Tobacco, Charles county. 
Nottingham, rrince George's county. 
New Market, Frederick county. 
Tjiberty town, do. 

Rockville, Montgomery county. 
Piscataway, Prince George's county. 

Do. do. 

Baltimore, 
Upper Marlborough, P. G's county. 

Do. do. 

Annapolis, 

Upper Marlborough, P. G's county, 
Hagerstown, 
Chestertown, 
Baltimore, 
Upper Marlborough, P. G.'s county, 



Alexander H. Tyson, 
J. M. S. Causin, 
Wm. T. Purnell, 
George P. Jinkins, 
N. L. Goklsborough, 
Wm. A Dulany, 
John H. Riggs, 
John A Carter, 
Edward W. Belt, 
Alien B. Davis, 
Wm. O^len Niles, 
Francis Brengle, 
James M. Coale, 
George H. Calvert, 
Henry Ellicott, 
Wm. L. Gaither, 
Zadok M. Waters, 
Dr. S. C. White, 



G. Cuthbert Powell, 
Robert T. Luckett, 
C. C. Mclntyre, 
Joseph A. \\ illiamson, 
Charles Jas. Faulkner, 
Edmund P. Hunter, 
Lewis Glover, 
Gary S. Page, 
James R. Gardner, 
Joseph G. Gray, 
AVni. F. Turner, 
Wm. V. Neale, 
Robert E. Lee, 
Luther O. Sullivan, 
James W. Foster, 
Andrew Hunter, 
John J. Brown, 
Levi C. Cordell, 
Wm. C. Worthington, 
Thomas R- Ditty, 
Geo. W. Lewis, 
Wm. R. Rose, 
Samuel Taggart, 
Thomas S. McClelland, 
John J. Dyer, 
Alex. H. H. Stuart, 
James Barbour, Jr. 
Thaddeus P. Robinson, 
Thomas L. Lomax, 
Richard H. Stewart, 
Francis C. Fitzhugh, 
Gustavus B. Wallace, 
Robert B. Semple, 
Alexander M- Bruen, 
Lewis J. Fourniguit, 
Richard H. Gatson, 
John B. L. Marsden, 
Alex. Clarke, 
Wm. Doyle, 
Francis Mallory, 



Henry E. Spencer, 



25 

Govenstown, B?ltiniore county, 
Leonardtown, St. Mary's county» 
Denton, Caroline county, 
Port Tobacco, Charles county, 
Cambridge, Dorchester county, 
Port Tobacco, Charles county, 
Lisbon, Anne Arundel county, 
Rockville, Montgomery county. 
Upper Marlborough, P. G.'s county, 
Brookville, Montgomery county, 
Frederick city, 

Do. 

Do. 
Baltimore, 

Patuxent Forges, Anne Arundel county. 
Unity, Montgomery countj', 

Clarksburg, do, 
Montgomery county. 

Virginia. — -io. 

Middleburg, Loudon county. 

do. do. 

Leesburg, do. 

do. do. 

Martinsburg, Berkley county. 

Do. do. 

Berry ville, Frederick county. 
Winchester, do. 

Do. do. 

Do. do. 

Le Plains, Fauquier county. 
Middleburg, do. 
Warrenton, do. 
Middleburg, do. 
Le Plains, do. 
Charlestown, Jefferson county. 

Do. do. 

Do. do. 

Do. do. 

Mattox Bridge, Westmoreland county. 

Do. do. 

Do. do. 

Staunton, Augusta county. 

Do. do. 

Do. do. 

Do. do. 

Barboursville, Orange county. 
Wheeling, Ohio do. 

Hampstead, King George do. 

Do. do. 

Do. do. 

King George C. H. county. 
Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania do. 

Do. do. 

V all six of Norfolk, Virginia. 

J 

Ohio— 21. 

Cincinnati, Hamilton county. 



Daniel W. Fairbank, 
George W. Burnet, 
J. W. Piatt, 
George W. Jones, Jun. 
Isaiah Thomas, 
Adam Peters, 
Augustus Tucker, _ 
Edward H, Gumming, 
James S. Halsey, 
John C. Graeff, 
Albert Galloway, 
John S. Gill, 
William S. Casey, 
John M. Creed, 
J. E. Atwood, 
Peter P. Love, 
William H, Creighton, 
James Riley, 
Lemuel Weaver, 
Calvin Pease, 



Philip S. White, 
John L. Blain, 
Richard Pindell, 
William Jones, 
John N. Johnson, 
Thomas J. Johnson, 
Lavy Anderson. 
William N. Bullit, 



Henry C. Flagg, 
S. Brown, 



24 

Cincinnati, Hamilton county, 
Do. do. 

Do. do. 

Do. do. 

Do. do. 

Zanesville, Muskingum county. 



Zaccheus Collins Lee, 
Joseph Bradley, 
Doct. Wm. B. Magruder, 
George Forrest, 
George A. Hyde, 
Thos. P. Coleman, 
Charles A. Alexander, 
Benj. S. Kinsey, 



Do. do. 

Springfield, Clark do. 

Do. do. 

T. Springs, Greene do. 

Xenia, Do. do. 

Columbus, Franklin do. 

Do. do. 

Lancaster, Fairfield do. 

Baltimore, Do. do. 
Dayton, Montgomery do. 

Chillicothe, Ross do. 

Hamilton, Burke do. 
Urbana, Champaign county 

W^'irrpii, Truttibnil county. 

Kentucky. — 8. 

Frankfort, 

Do. 
Lexington. 
Richmond. 
Louisville. 

Do. 

Do. 

Do. 

South Carolina. — 1. 
Charleston 

Louisiana. — 1. 
New Orleans. 
District of Columbia. — 8. 

I Washington City. 

? 



Georgetown. 
Alexandria. 



Samuel W. Beall, 



Mic}iiGAN Territory. — 1. 

Michigan Territory. 



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